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- 1588 The "Invincible" Spanish Armada is sighted approaching England, several skirmishes follow forcing the invading fleet to make a long and costly retreat around Scotland and Ireland
- 1609 Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs at Ticonderoga, New York, setting the stage for French-Iroquois conflicts for the next 150 years
- 1848 Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt - an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule put down by police
- 1905 US Secretary of War William Howard Taft makes secret agreement with Japanese Prime Minister Katsura agreeing to Japanese free rein in Korea in return for non-interference with the US in the Philippines
- 1921 Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party
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Jul 29 in Film & TV
- 1928 Test footage is first created for Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie", featuring Mickey Mouse
Jul 29 in Music
- 1973 Led Zeppelin have more than $200,000 in cash stolen from a safe deposit box at the New York Hilton hotel
Jul 29 in Sport
- 1751 1st international world title prize fight: Jack Stack of England, beats challenger M. Petit of France in 29 mins in England
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Zion Harvey became the first paediatric patient to receive a double hand transplant at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Fun Fact About July 29
Ten Spanish treasure galleons sink off Florida's coast in a hurricane
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